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benny green curriculum vitae

SUMMARY

Combine mastery of jazz keyboard technique with decades of real world experience performing for audiences around the world, and it’s no wonder that Benny Green has been hailed as the most exciting hard-swinging, hard-bop pianist to ever emerge from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. In the intervening decades since his first professional appearance, Benny has recorded, performed and collaborated with celebrated artists of inlcuding Ray Brown, Betty Carter, Freddie Hubbard, Oscar Peterson and Art Blakey.

INTERESTS

Benny Green was not simply a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, he is a jazz messenger, and this personal experience places him squarely as a rare living legacy within the lineage of the hard bop jazz medium. In the last twenty years he has been invited to lead innumerable lectures, residencies, workshops and classes where he has fulfilled a personal and professional objective to share his expansive knowledge and experience with students around the world. Among the many notable institutions that Benny is regularly asked to lecture: The Juilliard School, the Berkeley College of Music, the Brubeck Institute, Snow College, Stanford University, The University of Michigan and Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

Benny is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor